26.9.15 – Dear Mother, The great battle began yesterday and we are now full of wild rumours. On the 25th of September 1915 the Loos-Artois […]
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24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]
Continue reading »This image is taken from a notebook kept by Horace Darwin to record his ideas for all manner of mechanical devices, including a self-adjusting spanner, […]
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These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]
Continue reading »At first glance, it looks like a French Book of Hours made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century: it is written in humanistic […]
Continue reading »The latter half of the nineteenth century saw a rise in interest in Spiritualism, the belief that the spirits of the dead can, and indeed […]
Continue reading »James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]
Continue reading »In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for April. It can be viewed on their website here.
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for March. It can be found on their webpage.
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